Cards for games.



CHARLES DESHLER, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

CARDS FOR GAMES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed November 27, 1907. Serial No. 404,067.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES DESHLEB, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cards forGames; and I do hereby declare the follow ing to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved game and is of a st le known asQuiz, and is adapted for di 'erent topics or studies, as it can bedivided into such branches as Arithmetic Quiz, Natural History Quiz,Literature Quiz, Grammar Quiz, History Quiz, Geography Quiz, SpellingQuiz, Pronunciation Quiz, MiscellaneousQuiz, and any number ofsub-classes thereof. These branches themselves can be subdivided intoJunior, Intermediate and Senior, and thus a wide field of use ispresented.

The game has educational advantages that make it valuable in training,and presenting facts in a manner to cause a player to have -the correctanswer to a question fixed in his.

mind.

Figure 1 illustrates a card used in a J unior Spelling Quiz. Fig 2 showsa card used in Junior Pronunciation Quiz, and Fig. 3 is one used inJunior Geography Quiz. Fig. 4: is a view of a marker card.

The game is played with a pack of ques tion and answer cards, preferablyto the number of forty, and five marker cards are also sup lied so thatthe score can be kept. Each uestion and Answer card has say fivequestions and the correct answers there to on its face, and thequestions and answers are arranged alternately, each question beingfollowed by its answer, for convenience. Each question and answer cardhas also a number thereon, the cards in the series being numberedconsecutively up to the number of cards in the pack. Each marker cardhas printed, on one end, the word Hi ht or its equivalent, and on theother end Wrong or a similar word.

The number of players should not exceed six, or one more than the numberof marker cards. The question and answer cards are 'before pointintoward the shuflled and the players can draw for the deal, according tothe numbers on the cards drawn, the lucky one being the dealer orteacher. The dealer or teacher shufiles and deals the question andanswer cards, five at a time to each pupil or player and one card facedown to himself. The five cards in each players possession are used fortallying. The rest of the pack are laid stacked and face down in frontof the dealer or teacher. The dealer now arranges the five marker cardsand the one question and answer card, from which he is about to quiz, inhis hand. He then proceeds to ask the, first player, on his left, thefirst question from his card and exacts an answer before he proceeds tothe next player. As the question is answered the teacher places a markercard, face down, player, with its Right or Wrong end nearest the player,according to his answer, the answer on the question and answer card inthe teachers hand being the standard.

After all players have answered the question, the marker cards areturned over sidewise so as to not reverse the indication of Right orWVrong, and each player answering incorrectly must deposit one of hisQuestion and Answer cards on the center of the table or play-board as atally. The dealer collects the marker cards and proceeds as in the caseof the first question, with the next one, and so on until the oneQuestion and Answer card in his possession is used up. It will be'seenfrom this that the pupil with the greatest number of Question and Answercards in his possession is used up. It will be seen from this rectly,and is the dealer or teacher for the next hand. If two or more layerscorrectly answer the same number of questions, each draws a card fromthe face-down cards on the table, and the low number drawn entitles theholder to be the dealer or teacher.

In case the dealers or teachers Question and Answer card has recentlybeen used for a quiz, he may substitute another for it. The number ofcards and the multiplicity of questions on each card make a wide fieldof inquiry, for instance, forty cards with five questions in each, givetwo hundred questions and it is not necessary to repeat a card with itsquestions during a game.

The drawings give an idea of the scope of the game, and its educationalvalue, in addition to its being a source of amusement, will be apparent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A set of playingcards comprising a plurality of cards having on one face a series ofquestions, each question being followed by a correct answer thereto, andeach card having a number thereon, the numbers running consecutively.

2. A set of playing cards comprising a plurality of cards having on oneface aseries of questions, each question being followed by a correctanswer thereto, in combination wit a set of marker cards having on theopposite ends a legend indicating a correct or incorrect answer,respectively.

questions on each playing card.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my handthis 16th day of November 1907. 7

CHARLES DESHLE R.

lVitnesses VVM. H. CAMFIELD, E. A. PELL.

